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You know the feeling – your calendar's packed, full of appointments and responsibilities, so it’s easy to forget that you have a preventive check-up scheduled for a certain date. People often don't go to preventive check-ups; they only visit a doctor when a problem occurs. However, it is very important to have some check-ups regularly - these include gynaecological examinations.

When you first think about using donated sperm to conceive a child, you might think of it as picking out a father. While sifting through candidates, thinking of the donor as strictly a donor from the get-go will help you make a clearer choice and prevent future misunderstandings. Also ask yourself some guiding questions and set parameters to help narrow down your options because cryobanks keep thousands of anonymous and non-anonymous donors at hand, and having thousands of options can overwhelm even those most determined. 

Egg donation makes it possible for thousands of women who want to get pregnant, particularly women over forty, or with fertility-related difficulties, to successfully conceive and have a baby. For many years the only eggs available were those freshly donated, but rapid advances in the technology of freezing (cryopreservation) methods, have made it possible to successfully freeze unfertilized eggs which can be used in IVF procedures or stored for later use. But which, fresh or frozen eggs, are more successful in achieving the goal of producing a healthy baby?

Although there is still no absolute guarantee of pregnancy through IVF, the chance of success through this fertility treatment is rising as more is known about fertility and the process. In the earlier days of IVF, only 12% of patients were able to get pregnant. Now, almost 60% of patients under 35 succeed in getting pregnant when they undergo IVF correctly. IVF also used to result in a worrying number of multiple births, i.e. twins and triplets. This raises the chance of pregnancy complications and problems during birth. That number has now shot down from 30% of cases to 5%. 

Egg donation is a process whereby a fertile woman donates an egg, or oocyte, to another woman to allow her to conceive. The egg or eggs are removed from the donor, fertilised with donated sperm in a laboratory and the resultant embryo implanted in the female recipient’s uterus using a procedure such as IVF (In Vitro Fertilisation). Egg donation is often sought by women who want to get pregnant but whose own eggs are unusable for various reasons.

An underdeveloped understanding of egg donation might leave you with the presumption that donating is a fast way to cash. However, health care for the donor and the psychological value to patients are often cited as the top reasons to either donate eggs or pursue fertility treatment using donated eggs.

At first glance, IVF, or in vitro fertilisation, doesn’t seem a complicated process; eggs are removed from the body (or from the donor), fertilised in the laboratory, then returned to the uterus, which in the majority of cases completes the process. So what’s so demanding about that? The number of horror stories on online forums has terrified many people and discouraged them from seeking treatment, describing the process as very exhausting, particularly for women. Even though it is true that IVF is, in a sense, an immense challenge, one has to look at it from several points of view and find out what can be expected from this much-discussed method.

A healthy lifestyle and whole foods are essential in many aspects of life. And even has an effect on fertility. Let's take a look at 7 foods that promote hormone function and optimal fertility and we should include them in our diet.

Many people may think that the inability to conceive is the woman's “fault”. In fact, the ratio between man and woman  is more than balanced - in 40% it is some problem on the female side, in the other 40% it is on the male side. In the remaining 20% the cause is not found or there is a problem on both sides. Let's look at the most common causes of male infertility.

GYNEM, the first family IVF clinic in the Czech Republic, was founded in Prague in 2013. This assisted reproduction (IVF) centre was established to expand the services offered by GYNEM, which has operated two gynaecological practices since 2010.

If you're still wondering whether Prague is the right place for IVF, then wonder no more – it is. The GYNEM IVF centre is one of the many clinics in Prague that treats infertility and helps women from all over the world to conceive. In addition, Prague is an ideal place to relax, and a tourist's paradise, for the following five reasons.

Infertility is nothing new – millions all over the world are affected by it, both men and women. A number of conditions prevent couples from conceiving very regularly, and are a source of grief for many.